Practical discussion on contemporary life challenges from an ancient perspective.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

THE CONTENTMENT IN OUR STATION

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to
them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart.And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,
and in favor with God and men.(Luke 2:51-52)

Although what Jesus was meant to
do--His Father’s business—had already been embraced by Him, when He was to do it was placed on
hold.Days of private obscurity would
prepare Him for days of public ministry.

For eighteen years, Jesus lived as a
model son in Joseph and Mary's house.He
contented Himself with living in humility working in a carpenter's shop.He was being groomed for His life mission by
lowly submission.

If we seek the spotlight and sulk if
we don't have it, then it will ruin us when it does shine on us.Don't run ahead of God!We must content ourselves with being a dealer
in hope to those around us, and God may choose to give us a wider audience someday.God knows where you are and how to get you
where He wants you to be.

What happened for Jesus during those
hidden years between the events at age twelve in the Temple
and His stepping into the Jordan River to be
baptized and beginning at age thirty and those three and one-half years of redemptive
work?Growth—in every dimension
of life as He matured intellectually, “in wisdom”;physically, “in stature”; spiritually,
“in favor with God”; socially, “and men.”We must grow into the size of work God has
for us, and such time is never wasted if we apply ourselves to development as
disciples.

Just because you can’t do the “big thing” you dream about
today, will that mean you will not do the “best thing” you are capable of doing
this day?

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About Me

I am a mountaineer by birth--a native of Asheville, NC. For a period of ten years I lived in the Charlotte area and for the last eighteen, I have been "home." I was brought up in a Christian family. In fact, I went to church nine months before I was born! Despite the best efforts of parents and preachers, I went astray. The Prodigal Son story that Jesus told in Luke 15 became my story--a sordid life of drugs and booze and that's enough for you to know. But at the age of eighteen all I had been taught came flooding back into my mind when I saw the mess I was in. Christ changed me. I gave my life to Him and as a result have spent the last three decades preaching the Gospel. I'm not all I ought to be and certainly not what I one day shall be, but thankfully, not what I used to be! God has blessed me with a great wife, five wonderful children and so far, twelve grandchildren. To Him be the glory and praise, now and forever.